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Differentiated Integration and Disintegration in the EU after Brexit : Risks versus Opportunities
2019
Differentiation is becoming an increasingly salient feature of European integration. The multi‐faceted European crisis and the subsequent Brexit vote (paving the way for a ground‐breaking case of differentiated disintegration) have led scholars and practitioners to think about the consequences of differentiated integration. This article draws on five well‐established models of differentiation experienced by countries both inside and outside the Union: the EEA model; the Danish model of (quasi‐)permanent differentiation; the Swedish model of de facto differentiation; the instrumental model; and the British model of differentiated disintegration. It addresses the different risks and opportuni…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?
2021
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii) a retrofitting of adaptation into existing development agendas; and (iv) a lack of critical engagement with how ‘adaptation success’ is defined. Emerging literature shows potential avenues for overcoming the current failure of adaptation intervent…
Community currency (CCs) in Spain: An empirical study of their social effects
2016
Despite its sudden proliferation along the economic crisis period, no previous study has investigated the social effects of the community currency (CCs) experiences in Spain. Previous research on CCs experiences from different countries provided evidences about social capital improvement, introducing CCs as sustainability tools. This research uses the theoretical frameworks of social capital and complex adaptive systems to approach concepts like sustainability, networks, trust, norms, participation and cooperation. Statistical analysis of the data collected in June 2013 through online survey explores social capital and resilience indicators among the Spanish exchange community users, conclu…
Improving educational resilience in the OECD countries: Two convergent paths
2021
Abstract While equality of opportunity in education has been studied, the literature mainly focuses on academic performance and its determinants. Thus, to help fill this gap, this paper identifies the factors that contribute to improving equality of opportunity and the policies that should be implemented to achieve it. This work is novel in various ways. First, it defines student resilience in a new way using multilevel models applied to two groups of countries. Second, it analyses the determinants of equality of opportunity in the OECD and makes economic policy recommendations. Using the PISA waves from 2003 to 2018, our results show that uniform economic policies should not be pursued acr…
Commoning of territorial heritage and tools of participated sustainability for the production and enhancement of agro-environmental public goods
2021
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyze how the commoning heritage processes find application for the production of agro-environmental public goods in contexts of high socio-economic marginality and environmental vulnerability, characterized by abandonment and from the consumption of agricultural land for food use. The purpose is to understand how these processes are able to influence, at local level, the governance processes for the implementation of environmental protection strategies. The survey made it possible to verify how the commoning processes aimed at the production of agro-environmental goods generate territorial resilience, understood as a community competence able to st…
Segmentando clientes a partir del valor del servicio. Una aproximación en el contexto de la relación entre empresas
2007
ResumenSe argumenta en la literatura de marketing de servicios que el proceso de servicio puede ser el antecedente más importante de la evaluación que el cliente hace sobre su resultado, y que en ese juicio evaluativo último, el valor del servicio adquiere un papel esencial al explicar la retención del cliente. Sin embargo, las características de este proceso de creación no han sido extensamente estudiadas, especialmente en un contexto de relación entre empresas. El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer y testar un esquema conceptual que explore las relaciones existentes entre el valor, la satisfacción y la respuesta conductual del cliente, recogiendo la propuesta de Parasuraman, quien recon…
Territorial Capital and Growth over the Great Recession: a Local Analysis for Italy"
2017
The consequences of the crisis have been mainly analyzed at national/ international levels, neglecting its differential effects on local areas. Notwithstanding the international character of the Great Recession, the different local structural features might have influenced the economic and social impact of the crisis, determining effects on the resilience and recovery chance. In this paper, we focus on the role of different territorial indicators by looking at how their relevance has changed during the recent crisis at provincial level. Our aim is threefold. First, we identify the strategic territorial elements which might be particularly relevant in ensuring a greater local absorption capa…
Performative Regional (dis)Integration: Transnational Markets, Mobile Commodities, and Bordered North–South Differences
2011
Being implicated in an ambivalent play of both border crossing and drawing, global commodity chains are an ideal organizational field to analyze the fundamental paradox of global connectivity. Approaching the contingency of borders from a perspective informed by the performativity approach to markets, this paper starts from the assumption that this paradox is particularly salient in the context of commodity chains which connect the Global South with the Global North. Taking the example of one single agrocommodity, the tomato, and two border regions (Morocco–EU and Mexico–USA), we follow the links and heterogeneous associations which stretch from the border to the fields, supermarket shelves…
Un nuovo caso di spontaneizzazione incipiente: Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don (Malvaceae) in Sicilia
2015
In questa nota si riporta l’incipiente processo di naturalizzazione in Sicilia di Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don, un albero australiano sempreverde di media grandezza appartenente alla famiglia delle Malvaceae.
Angļu renesanses dzeja kā A. S. Baijatas romāna "Jaunava dārzā" interteksts
2021
Esošais pētījums izmeklē intertekstualitāti un tās tipus A. S. Baijatas romānā “Jaunava Dārzā”. Tas parāda intertekstuālas saiknes Baijatas romānā ar Angļu Renesasnses dzeju un Spensera episku poēmu “The Faerie Queene”. Paraugi tika atlasīti un prezentēti Pielikumos 1, 2 un 3. Pētījuma mērķis ir identificēt un analizēt Angļu Renesanses dzejas atsauces Baijatas romānā. Teorētiskā daļa satur informāciju par Renesanses laikmeta Angliju 16. - 17. gadsimta ietvaros, ka arī 1950. gada Angliju. Teorētiskā daļa apraksta Renesanses dzejas tipoloģiju un vēsturi, ka arī ar to saistītas vēsturiskas personas. Praktiskā daļa satur informāciju par intertekstualitātes piemēriem Baijatas romānā. Pētījums ir…